by Pag » Sun May 30, 2021 11:40 am
Went down to Hartley Rd and watched Flinders Park v Golden Grove yesterday.
Cracker game of footy, good setup FP have now with the new change room building closer to the clubrooms (handy temporary bar under there too). Massive day with a 2011 flag reunion. Plenty $$$ changing hands, reckon FP’s bar would’ve been close to empty last night.
The game itself was as good as you’d hope for 1 v 2, FP should’ve been well in front at 1/4 time with the majority of the play but wasted some chances. GG had the majority of the possession in the 2nd but didn’t look overly dangerous and FP took their chances and led by four goals at half time.
GG absolutely dominated the third, complete one way traffic. Looked like only one winner when they went in a goal up at 3/4 time. Credit to FP, found a way to regain the ascendancy in the last. Took a long time for them to break through for a goal, ball was pinned into their forward half for 10-15 mins, but once they got one the next two came quickly and despite Shaw’s goal late, FP hung on. Great game of footy.
Thought Richards, Schwarz and Cousins were the best three for FP. Pitman, Walker and Barmby for GG.
Best thing I saw all day though was the way some GG supporters and a FP official handled an incident in the crowd that could’ve got rather nasty. Both parties handled it really calmly, but were strong in their actions. Don’t wanna go into too much detail but as a neutral I walked away with some more respect for both clubs for the way it was dealt with.